ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,978, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Wheels Up Partners Holdings LLC (New York).

"Optimized schedule construction and modification for on-demand private aviation operator" was invented by Suat Bog (Los Angeles), Yu-Heng Chang (Austin, Texas) and Izzy Doctor (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer implemented methods and systems construct and modify a schedule for an on-demand private aviation operator. Demand supply information for one or more specific days in the future are obtained and used by a construction algorithm to construct a schedule for the one or more specific days that assigns respective aircraft to respe...